Tick & Lyme Disease Study Groups

OLD Lyme Vaccine Group

ROBERT B. NADELMAN, M.D., JOHN NOWAKOWSKI, M.D., DURLAND FISH, PH.D., RICHARD C. FALCO, PH.D., KATHERINE FREEMAN, DR.P.H., DONNA MCKENNA, R.N., PETER WELCH, M.D., ROBERT MARCUS, M.D., MARIA E. AGÜERO-ROSENFELD, M.D., DAVID T. DENNIS, M.D., AND GARY P. WORMSER, M.D.

IDSA Guidelines- 2006

The Clinical Assessment, Treatment, and Prevention of Lyme Disease, Human Granulocytic Anaplasmosis, and Babesiosis: Clinical Practice Guidelines by the Infectious Diseases Society of America

• Gary P. Wormser1, Raymond J. Dattwyler2, Eugene D. Shapiro5,6,
• John J. Halperin3,4, Allen C. Steere9, Mark S. Klempner10,
• Peter J. Krause8, Johan S. Bakken11, Franc Strle13,
• Gerold Stanek14,Linda Bockenstedt7, Durland Fish6,
• J. Stephen Dumler12, andRobert B. Nadelman1

• ¹Divisions of Infectious Diseases and New York
• University School of Medicine, New York, New York
• ²Divisions of Allergy, Immunology, and Rheumatology,
• Department of Medicine, New York Medical College,
• Valhalla, and New York University School of Medicine,
• New York, New York
• ³Divisions of New York University School of Medicine,
• New York, New York
• ⁴Divisions of Atlantic Neuroscience Institute, Summit,
• New Jersey
• ⁵Departments of Pediatrics and Department of Pediatrics,
• University of Connecticut School of Medicine and
• Connecticut Children's Medical Center, Hartford
• ⁶Departments of Epidemiology and Public Health and
• Department of Pediatrics, University of Connecticut
• School of Medicine and Connecticut Children's Medical
• Center, Hartford
• ⁷Departments of Section of Rheumatology, Department
• of Medicine, Yale University School of Medicine,
• New Haven, and Department of Pediatrics, University of
• Connecticut School of Medicine and Connecticut
• Children's Medical Center, Hartford
• ⁸Department of Pediatrics, University of Connecticut
• School of Medicine and Connecticut Children's Medical
• Center, Hartford
• ⁹Division of Rheumatology, Allergy, and Immunology,
• Massachusetts General Hospital, Harvard Medical School,
• and Boston University School of Medicine and Boston
• Medical Center, Boston, Massachusetts
• ¹⁰Boston University School of Medicine and Boston
• Medical Center, Boston, Massachusetts
• ¹¹Section of Infectious Diseases, St. Luke's Hospital,
• Duluth, Minnesota
• ¹²Division of Medical Microbiology, Department of
• Pathology, The Johns Hopkins Medical Institutions,
• Baltimore, Maryland
• ¹³Department of Infectious Diseases, University
• Medical Center, Ljubljana, Slovenia
• ¹⁴Medical University of Vienna, Vienna, Austri

Ad-Hoc International Lyme Group

A Critical Appraisal of "Chronic Lyme Disease"

Henry M. Feder, Jr., M.D., Barbara J.B. Johnson, Ph.D., Susan O'Connell, M.D., Eugene D. Shapiro, M.D., Allen C. Steere, M.D., Gary P. Wormser, M.D., and the Ad Hoc International Lyme Disease Group

The following members of the Ad Hoc International Lyme Disease Group were also authors: Gundersen Lutheran Medical Foundation, La Crosse, WI — W.A. Agger; National Microbiology Laboratory, Health Canada, Winnipeg, MB, Canada — H. Artsob; Johns Hopkins Medical Institutions, Baltimore — P. Auwaerter, J.S. Dumler; St. Luke's Hospital, Duluth, MN — J.S. Bakken; Yale University School of Medicine, New Haven, CT — L.K. Bockenstedt, J. Green; New York Medical College, Valhalla — R.J. Dattwyler, J. Munoz, R.B. Nadelman, I. Schwartz; Danbury Hospital, Danbury, CT — T. Draper;

Johns Hopkins Medical Institutions, Crofton, MD — E. McSweegan; Atlantic Neuroscience Institute, Summit, NJ, and the New York University School of Medicine, New York — J.J. Halperin; Boston University School of Medicine and Boston Medical Center, Boston — M.S. Klempner; University of Connecticut School of Medicine and Connecticut Children's Medical Center, Farmington — P.J. Krause; Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Fort Collins, CO — P. Mead;

University of British Columbia, Vancouver, Canada —M. Morshed; University of Medicine and Dentistry of New Jersey–Robert Wood Johnson Medical School, Piscataway — R. Porwancher; University of ConnecticutHealth Center, Farmington — J.D. Radolf; Maine Medical Center, Portland, ME — R.P. Smith, Jr.; Schneider Children's Hospital at North Shore, Manhasset, NY — S. Sood;

Washington Hospital Center and Georgetown University Medical Center, Washington, DC — A. Weinstein; Wadsworth Center, New York State Department of Health, Albany — S.J. Wong; and Connecticut Children's Medical Center, University of Connecticut, Hartford — L. Zemel.